Poet Quotes - Page 4

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.